Bug#1100072: initscripts: Provide script to load kernel modules during boot

[Tim H.]

Package: initscripts
Version: 3.14-3
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

/etc/init.d/kmod was recently dropped from the kmod package. The script
used to load kernel modules sourced from drop-in files
in /etc/modules-load.d/ during boot.

My first idea was suggesting the script for inclusion into
orphan-sysvinit-scripts, but it looks like the mechanism only works for
scripts the orphaning package provides a service file for (of which
kmod has none).

To complicate things the kmod package tries to purge rcS.d links on
every upgrade[1] so I had to rename the script.

On the systemd side kmod.service is part of the systemd package. So
maybe its worth to consider the inclusion of /etc/init.d/kmod (or some
variation) into initscripts.

~Tim

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/md/kmod/-/commit/c2ae42ca3a338fba0f190e3a61a635d386b1e8fa

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.17-1 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  sysv-rc         3.14-3
ii  sysvinit-utils  3.14-3

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs         1.47.2-1
ii  psmisc            23.7-2
ii  util-linux-extra  2.40.4-5

initscripts suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/rcS changed [not included]
/etc/default/tmpfs changed [not included]
/etc/rc.local changed [not included]

-- no debconf information